The Last One on Earth Trivia Quiz

Answer: Southern Siberia

Tofa is now only spoken by a handful (approx. 25 people) of nomads in the Eastern Sayan Mountains, in Southern Siberia. The suffix 'sig' can be added to any word to mean 'smell like'. For example dog-sig means you smell like a dog! No other language is known to have this kind of suffix. In the 1950s the Soviet government forced the Tofa people to learn Russian and abandon their traditional ways.
Another unusual language is the body counting system used by some tribes in Papua New Guinea. For example, in 'Kobon', one up to ten goes; little finger up to shoulder. To go higher involves counting up to the collarbone; back down the other side, back up and starting all over again. So 61 in 'Kobon' is "hand turn around second time go back biceps other side"
It must be great fun being a doctor there - "Is you arm broken or are trying to say you are ten years old?" Hehe!

Answer: Swains Island

Anyone who has known a radio "ham" will have seen their collection of QSL cards. These are postcards sent to confirm two way communication. The American Radio Relay League administers a list of locations that qualify, and Swains Island was added in 2006.
Alas Swains Island was only on air for six days!

Answer: Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land, an area in Antarctica, was the very last place on Earth not to be claimed. Claims on Antarctica were frozen (no pun intended) in 1961 even so nobody had claimed this 1.6 million sq metres, around a tenth of the Antarctic. It is the only unclaimed bit of the land on the Earth.

Hans Island is a tiny, uninhabitable, icebound rock, situated between Greenland and Ellesmere island, claimed by both Canada and Denmark. The talks, opened in 1995, look set to go to the International Court of Justice.

Claims on the Arctic have been extant since Canada made claims, on the Sector Principle, in 1925. The five countries surrounding the Arctic; Russia, the United States, Canada, Norway and Denmark/Greenland have all made claims on territory. A Russian expedition, in 2007, aimed to prove that the Lomonosov Ridge, which passes under the North Pole, is in fact an extension of Russia's landmass.

Answer: The Aral Sea

Once a popular Russian seaside resort in Uzbekistan and the fourth largest lake in the world (68,000 sq km) the Aral Sea has now dried up, leaving around 50,000 sq km of uncharted desert. All that's left of the mighty 'Amu Darya River', the sea's main source, is a canal carrying a trickle of farm drainage.
Satellite photos show up brilliant white due to the salt deposits and pesticides used. A few have tried to drive across the sea bed to confirm the satellite's report, but have not got very far!

Answer: Seventeen Ayoreo

In 2004, a previously uncontacted group of 17 Ayoreo Indians emerged from the jungle in Paraguay, reluctantly made contact with other Ayoreo and asked for their help. Cattle ranchers had taken over their territory and cut off their water supply.
The Sentinelese live on the North Sentinel island, part of the Andaman island group, and definitely do not want outside contact. When the Indian government sent a helicopter out in the wake of the 2004 tsunami they fired arrows at it.
The Jarawa, another Andaman tribe made first contact in 1998, driven by the pressure of poachers.
Many tribes are virtually wiped out by disease and violence when they make contact with the outside world according to Survival International.
Funai, the Brazilian government's Indian Affairs department believe there are around 65 tribes in Brazil alone that have had no contact and worldwide, over one hundred tribes and up to 40,000 people.

Answer: 40th highest in Bhutan

The highest unclimbed mountain is Gangkhar Puensum, standing at 7541 metres, in the Kingdom of Bhutan. It's been attempted on three occasions but climbers have failed to reach the summit.
Since then Bhutan has banned the climbing of peaks over 6000 metres because of local spiritual beliefs.

Answer: Colorado

The very last evidence of living dinosaurs is the tracks made by a family of duck-billed plant eaters in Ludlow, Colorado. It's estimated that the tracks would have been formed around 65 million years ago.

Answer: All of the answers are correct

Empedocles, a sub-marine volcano 40 kilometres off the coast of Sicily, erupted in 1831 creating a 4 square kilometres island. The Italians, the British, the French and the Spanish all made territorial claims. However, before the dispute could be settled it sank!
In 2002, Empedocles rumbled again and although the island was still ten metres below the surface, the Italians, taking no chances, sent a diver down with an Italian flag.

Answer: Jack Hills, Western Australia

Jack Hills, in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane, contains rock formations 3.8 billion years old and within them have been found zircons from 4.4 billion years ago. Their composition has been interpreted to show that free water existed on the earth at this time, although it is still the subject of debate. It doesn't mean there are not older ones about, but finding them could be tricky.

Answer: East Antarctica

The Arctic has already lost ten percent of its permanent ice cover. Basically the North is defrosting! According to Ron Kwok of NASA's Jet Propulsion lab in Pasadena, "multi-year ice will be gone in 40/50 years."

Western Antarctica and the Amundsen Sea, due to ocean changes, are losing ice as well.
It's predicted that East Antarctica will be the last place on Earth to have a permanent ice cover. However, civilisation may not be around to see it due to the oceans rising 70 metres!
But let me say we are not talking about the near future so don't panic.
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